I'm having a problem opening up a connection through port 110 on my main windows box. You would think it's a firewall, but I don't have any setup on my network. Here's the setup; I have 4 computers. 2 WinXP boxes (Home/Pro), 1 Linux box (RH9) and a Laptop (Win2k). All are on a wired connection through a single Hub connected to a LinkSys WRT54G with the exception of the laptop which is on a wireless link to the router. The router is connected to a LinkSys cable modem to my ISP. Now the problem; On my main computer (WinXP Pro box) I'm unable to open a connection to port 110 of my remote mail server (mail.gpcentre.net). I can connect using any of my other three boxes so that tells me three things; One, network is fine. Two, Router is fine. Three, there's something wrong with my main computer. I can't seem to figure out what's wrong. The only thing I've done with this system, that I hadn't with the others, is a bunch of registry cleaning, and installed Norton System Works 2004 Pro. Yes, I had made sure there no known firewall running (thanks to Norton). I'm really at a loss at to what's causing the problem. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks

Well colour me stupid and call me sherlly. It's Norton Systemworks 2004 Pro. Now, I gotta find out how to *stop* Norton from blocking port 110 checking... I just uninstalled Systemworks on a whim, and I'm able to check mail again. It does appear to be an application problem. And I know I never installed any Firewall (I even kept out the Web tools. I only installed AntiVirus, CleanSweep and Utils).